Orthodox medicine is no doubt the most conventional form of treatment for ailing health but traditional herbal remedies, popularly called ‘Agbo’ in Nigeria competes quite favourably. While there has been a lot of debate on the safety and efficacy of
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There has been much outcry about the plight of the girl child in Nigeria but particularly in northern Nigeria, and while it seemed that it bothered everyone else except the northerners, a young man from the northern extraction has spoken
Another Yoruba bride is toeing the line of @Eniolahu, a Nigerian feminist who gained popularity about this time last year, when she refused to kneel to her husband during their traditional Yoruba wedding. While Eniola was hotly criticised on social
Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia. It involves the removal of the clitoris, inner-and-outer lips of the vagina,
This is a story of a long-standing tradition among the Igbo people that you probably have never heard of. The Igbo woman pictured above is Chinyere Ikemefuna Orji. Chinyere was married off to late Ikemefuna Orji who passed on at
Nigerian woman, Cynthia Ify has taken to her Facebook page to narrate a touching story of how a woman was allegedly poisoned and killed by her husband’s family, as relayed to her by the deceased’s younger brother. Cynthia admonished women
A Nigerian girl from the Northern part of the country, Hauwa Sam Mohammed has taken to Twitter to give a sneak peek into the pain and realities of an average woman married to Hausa men; a post that has caused
A South African Twitter user with handle Patric @Vynah_m has taken to same to share a pathetic story of how her biological mother chose marriage over her. Her reality which has empowered more people come out to openly talk about
The stigmatisation that is attached to cesarean section in Nigeria is robbing one mother of the full joys of the arrival of her newborn after a successful CS surgery, as her in-laws have reportedly accused her of straying. READ ALSO: Why
Major traditional rulers in Southeast have announced date for abolition of the controversial Osu caste system. Targeted for extinction on December 28, 2018; are the Ohu, Ume and Osu caste systems that have taken roots in different parts of Igbo
